Caught in a spider web
called time
I flow swiftly from strand
to strand
as the spider gives
chase; I flee
yet only from strand to
strand, never breaking free
his dark shape
looms behind me, seeking
to devour, make me one
with what I flee,
time beckons me, I
realize
I'll never be free
because it's destiny
to be a timeless memory...
Will you remember me?
Or will I fade into
the time of timelessness
unsung though immortal
as my mortality
melded with time
and you no longer know
me see me as I once
was known, you see instead
the hands of the clock
the falling of the leaves
the setting of the sun
the passage of an
old love story
told by your
grandmother
before she died
and left you, scattered
in the breeze as a cloud
of ash wants,
we know time
never dies
it's always nearby
waiting
for the well
to run dry.